Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.